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bug#55744: infinite loop
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#55744: infinite loop |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Jun 2022 18:15:06 -0400 |
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> That's a regexp with a lot of backtracking, I think (i.e., elements that
> can be matched both by the ?'s as well as the two *'s). So matching
> this will be slow, which results in the hangs you're seeing when Emacs
> is trying to match that to the text in the buffer.
Would it make sense to say more about this point in the Emacs Lisp Manual
where it describes regexps?
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